Holy Trinity: an American tragedy in 40 years

Holy Trinity Church was a landmark in the tree-lined, thriving center of Duquesne, PA, outside Pittsburgh, where my cousins grew up in the 1960s. Then the town’s steel mill closed.

Holy Trinity, stuffy conservative 1950s version


Holy Trinity, modern 2000s version

My cousin Nancy Staisey remembers attending Mass at Holy Trinity with a friend when she was a child. Four decades later, she took her daughter Staisey to show her the church she remembered, just before it was demolished.